Chapter 37: Curiosity
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Chapter 37: Curiosity
Meng Yuanzhi thought that Tie Xinyuan was shameless in doing this, but this shamelessness was still within the scope of Meng Yuanzhi's acceptance.
Counting it, there are only two Song people within a radius of one hundred and ten miles, he and Tie Xinyuan, even if they are used by him, it is understandable.
Even he himself thinks he is the best candidate to be a target, and it is not surprising that Tie Xinyuan thinks so.
Carrying a bag of agate, leading two camels, armed with a strong bow, three bags of feather arrows, a short knife, a foldable iron spear, and then putting his armor on the camel's back, Meng Yuanzhi went down the Tianshan Mountain alone.
There are too few people in Qingxiang Valley, and Meng Yuanzhi doesn't plan to bring more people, he plans to go directly through the desert to Khotan, and this path is the closest.
The old patriarch stood outside the line all day, and after getting a piece of gold, he forgot about the very plump woman.
Tie Xinyuan, who has been in the Gobi for a winter, has slowly adapted to the way of doing things here, knows the value of gold here, and has a new understanding of the value of food.
Tieyi and the others are still busy on the Gobi, and occasionally go to the agate beach, which is called the place of death.
Agate, like diamonds, is the product of volcanic eruptions, except that one is carbon and the other is silica.
After the eruption of the volcano, a very terrifying circular rocky beach was formed on the Gobi, and there were many strange rocks on the rocky beach, and people who wanted to enter it needed very good skills.
The most terrible thing is that the volcano in which place is still running, from time to time there are large puffs of smoke erupted from the ground, forming a mushroom-shaped smoke, which is very eye-catching on the Gobi, and the pungent smell of sulfur will envelop the four fields.
In the legend of the Gobi. It was the abode of the Great Demon King, and anyone would avoid it from afar.
Only Tie Xinyuan knew that after more than 100 years of activity, this volcano had completely become a dormant volcano.
Seeing the old patriarch of the Qingxiang Valley tribe, Tie Xinyuan naturally linked him with the old man in the later generations.
Tie Xinyuan firmly believed that if the old patriarch could live for another thousand years, he would definitely evolve into that person.
Every day, Tie Yi was able to bring back some hungry men, and these were the same people who entered the Gobi in search of gold.
After exhausting their last bit of strength on the Gobi and not finding gold, these people finally remembered to go home.
It's just that Hami is already a thing or a person.
The Black Storm drove away the nearby beasts, except for the vultures. It was futile to find a beast to eat.
Therefore, there was a tragic situation of cannibalism in the Gobi Desert......
The people Tie Yi found were those who had eaten up his horses and camels and couldn't find anyone to eat, and he was half starved to death.
For these people, Tie Xinyuan bought a lot of shackles from the old patriarch and unceremoniously fastened them on their hands and feet, as long as he gave the old patriarch gold, he immediately turned into the most terrifying jailer in the world.
No matter who Tie Yi sent, he had to pass his level first, and he was whipped with a spike on his body. As long as he pulls down, a piece of skin and flesh will be torn off, and all the men who are handed over to him will have to pass through this level.
No one complained about Tie Xinyuan's move. This group of people is not only swordsmen, but also robbers.
Or that the people who live well in the Gobi are actually robbers.
Tie Xinyuan kept giving the old patriarch gold, and the old patriarch's territory was drastically decreasing.
Everyone knew that Tie Xinyuan wanted the entire Qingxiang Valley, and the old patriarch also knew it.
Originally, it was done with grabbing. Since Tie Xinyuan wanted to buy it, the old patriarch had the heart to sell the Qingxiang Valley to him.
The little savage told Tie Xinyuan more than once that the old patriarch was laughing at Tie Xinyuan. They just wanted to get rid of the only six pieces of gold in Tie Xinyuan's hand, and then they all ran away with the grain stored in the valley to find a new oasis and live a good life.
In the blink of an eye, the green grass on the edge of the hot spring finally spit out new shoots, and the gold in Tie Xinyuan's hand was completely gone.
The old patriarch who took all the men in the valley to help Qingxiang Valley build a pass on the first day disappeared without a trace on the second day.
Disappearing with him were eight of the toughest men in the valley.
In fact, the old patriarch's decision was right, Tie Xinyuan had no intention of killing them, but the group of Mahim had already had such thoughts.
Tie Xinyuan admired the old patriarch's self-taught eyes very much, with such a smart old patriarch, he would soon be able to re-use gold to re-gather a group of people for himself, and continue to live his life as a soil overlord.
At the beginning of the Gobi, gold changed the fate of many people, including Xu Dongsheng, who had disappeared for so long.
Today, agate will also change the fate of many people, including the ambitious Mahim.
A piece of agate with beautiful water patterns was next to Mahim's light gray eyes.
Tie Xinyuan didn't know what color of the sun he saw through the agate, and it seemed that his whole person was very happy.
The first business he wanted his post office to do was to ship the agate.
Meng Yuanzhi's martial arts are so strong that all these people are desperate, even if they don't use iron guns, this group of people can't beat Meng Yuanzhi, not to mention the six of them.
"Taliban, why do you Song people always find these valuable things in the Gobi Desert, but we, the people of the desert, can't find them anyway?"
Tie Xinyuan smiled and took the tightly held agate stone from Ma Heim's hand, threw it into the box and said with a smile: "Then practice martial arts well, and when you can fight the devil like Meng Yuanzhi one day, you can snatch these ghost blood agate from the devil." ”
Mahim looked at the colorful human agate rough in the box and swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "The goods are still too small." ”
Tie Xinyuan closed the lid of the box, sat on it and said with some sadness: "Mahim, go find the master and come back, if there are enough masters, we will have enough agate rough stones immediately, and I guarantee that everyone will become a real rich man when they go home." ”
Mahim's eyes were still staring at the box under Tie Xinyuan's buttocks, and it took a long time before he said, "How much money can we get for helping sell these agate?" ”
Tie Xinyuan got up from the box irritably, kicked the box fiercely and roared: "This is not any money or agate at all, it is actually our tools and manpower.
How many silver cakes can this box be exchanged for? Even if you can sell it for a high price, it will only be one box of agate for ten boxes of silver cakes.
In the end, the profit that fell into the hands was not even as good as the profit of a camel caravan.
If we can form a large army, we will be able to snatch more agate from the devil, and more of them will allow each of us to live in the castle.
Mahim, you send a group of men with these agatees, and exchange them all for food, armor, and weapons.
Remember, don't dare to call the army over, we just need those swordsmen and camel caravan guards, you know what the consequences will be if you call the army over. ”
Mahim's gray eyes turned around a few times and then shook his head and said, "You can't find anyone else, as long as an outsider knows that we have countless agate here, ten thousand people will know about it immediately."
Then countless armies will come here, like a black storm, and completely destroy everything here, including our lives. ”
Tie Xinyuan looked at Ma Hehim suspiciously and said, "You mean not to find outsiders, we will come by ourselves?" ”
Mahim nodded heavily and said, "Yes, Taliban, we can only rely on ourselves, please take us to that land full of devils." ”
Tie Xinyuan's face changed several times, and then he nodded and said, "Okay, I think so too, sleep well today, and we'll set off tomorrow." ”
With Tie Xinyuan's words, Mahim didn't seem to be very fond of the box of agate, and went to bed early with a group of his brothers, and they were very much looking forward to their performance tomorrow.
Under the dim oil lamp, Tie Yi and Tie Xinyuan are making gas masks, wanting to enter the Agate Beach, without the gas mask, the sulfur gas spewed out by the volcano will kill those who try to get close to the Agate Beach and the beasts in a short time.
Meng Yuanzhi said that except for a master like him who has a long qi vein and can dispel half a pillar of incense, the rest of the people can only reach the location of the volcanic rock at most, and the strong poisonous gas will kill them.
Of course, Tie Xinyuan does not believe in this evil, and the high concentration of sulfur dioxide gas is of course very bad, if it is equipped with a gas mask with activated carbon properties, it can be filtered well, although it cannot be effectively removed, at least it can be reduced a little, which is barely acceptable.
With no activated charcoal, just some charcoal black made from red willow and a temporary silk underwear, he made seven simple self-priming gas masks.
Tie Yi tried to wear it, and after putting it down, he yelled at Tie Xinyuan.
Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "I also know the danger, but if I don't dispel those people's doubts, there will be endless troubles in the future......"
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PS: Chapter 2, I'm going to enter the desert area tomorrow, I have more timecode words, which is a good thing......